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This article is from the Scouting FAQ, by Bill Nelson nelsonb@nospam.aztec.asu.edu, Soaring Golden Eagle eagle@rangernet.org and Alan Houser troop24@emf.net with numerous contributions by others.

Scouting: Water Games p2

11.5 TILT

You will need: (for each six or patrol)
* A billy can half filled with water
* An aluminium foil cake container
* 1 Alka-Seltzer tablet

For each patrol, put an Alka-Seltzer tablets in each foil cake dish
and then float one cake dish in each patrols billy can. The patrols
must now transport the billycan through an obstacle course without the
tablet getting wet or falling into the water. They are not allowed to
touch the foil disk or the tablet. The patrols could either carry the
billy cans by their handles, or if you are feeling very mean, you
could get them to pick them up between two poles.

11.6 WATER PISTOL FIGHT

You will need: (for each six player)
* A water pistol or a washing up liquid squeezy bottle
* A flack jacket made from a double sheet of newspaper with a hole
in the centre for the players head to go through
* A supply of water

This game should be played out of doors and could come into the wide
game category. The trouble with shooting type games, is knowing when
someone has been hit. This is the object of the newspaper flack
jackets. Any hits on the jacket will be easily visible. Any players
with wet patches on their flack jackets, are not allowed to fire on an
opponent and must return to their home base for a replacement flack
jacket. The team that has the most dry flack jackets at the end of the
game are the winners. Obviously you can't use this idea if it is
raining.

11.7 BUCKET LINE

You will need: (for each six or patrol)
* 2 buckets, one filled with water
* A supply of paper or plastic cups

This is a great game for hot days on camp. Teams stand in lines. They
have a bucket full of water at the front of the line and an empty
bucket at the rear. The object of the game is to transfer the water
from the front bucket to the rear bucket. To do this the team members
must pass the cups of water over their heads to the person behind.
Empty cups must be passed back to the front in the same fashion. To
play the game fairly you could weigh the buckets at the start and
finish to see how much water has been lost. Penalty points could then
be taken into account when working out the winning team.

 

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